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In this episode, new and strange emissions from N1L, Second Woman, Ewa Justka and Vytear, plus a guest mix from London's mighty Holodisc. Holodisc digs up prime cuts from Ophelia’s interviewing past. Meet Jamal Moss—the label’s unknowing spiritual godfather—repurposed to fit their selection of disembodied sounds.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

In this episode, Zu From All Over camps out in the car with the best Indie-Rock, Lo-Fi, and Emo (Midwest and elsewhere) to keep out of the cold.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

In this episode, Dronica meets Robbie Judkins, who has created a mix for the show.

Robbie Judkins is a composer, performer and DJ. He works under the name Left Hand Cuts off the Right; an outlet for exploratory methods and composition mixing zither, repetition, noise, bent electronics, piano and field recordings. He is the host of Parallax View on Threads Radio and creator of Animal Sounds on Resonance FM. His work has been featured in the ICA, Barbican, Wire Magazine, Cafe Oto, NTS, Whitechapel Gallery, Brachliegen Tapes and more.

The programme is a selection of sound and music that remain a source of inspiration and intrigue, have recently brought me joy or solace or have been made by those close to me. Traditional music, cyclical riffs, crackling and humming ambient, shining and shimmering noise, vast dub, pensive harmonies, strange grooves and more. Including Anne Briggs, Laaraji, Black to Comm, Lee Perry, Autopsy, Junior Kimbrough and more.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “plunging my hand / into the lake... / billowing clouds."

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

Or Rimer, born 1986, working and living in Tel Aviv, is a musician and composer. Rimer collaborates with video and film artists, choreographers, visual and performance artists for which he has composed original scores and designed soundscapes.

HYBRID MOMENTS by Or Rimer is composed out of original music and sounds, mixed and edited together with the following:

• AmosKorman-tabla
• Asaf Setty-violin
• VoiceofRobertoBenigniinJimJarmusch1986movieDOWNBY LOW
• RobertAshley-privateparts1978
• BillRuyle, Peter Zummo & the London Contemporary Orchestra present the UK premiere of Arthur Russell's Tower Of Meaning with Oliver Coates, live from Kings Place.
• Carl Stone-Figli
• Mika Levi-Hosting
• Additional sounds from woman giving natural birth

Radio Concrete by **Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

In this episode, we journey to Powys, Mid Wales and talk with Ellis Green to explore the musical genre of Dungeon Synth. We discuss its origins, aesthetics and shed light on Ellis' new DIY cassette-based label Verdant Wisdom.

The conversation is interspersed with a selection of Dungeon synth, Forest Ambient and other like-minded sonic offerings. Featuring tracks from Mortiis, Fåntratt, Lunar Womb, Sunken Grove, USKK, Oaklimb, Winter Seer, Middlewood. Find out more about the Verdant Wisdom label.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

This episode features recordings from the Athenian air waves. What lies between and under broadcasts and what is hidden during' is deconstructed in an attempt to expose the space behind structured radio transmissions. An attempt to re-introduce the ''space'' of the radio back into the radio. Come with us and take a small glimpse of what it is like to listen to a ''missing'' program.

The mix has been edited in real time using 4x radios, all different models and all with their own sound character and different feedback and mechanical possibilities.

This experiment aims to broadcast the absence of a broadcast.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Featuring (in order of appearance) …

Hannah Regel, Nicolette Polek, Iain Sinclair, David Grubbs, Lucy Sante, Imogen Cassels, Jess Cotton, Joan Brossa, Stanley Schtinter, Edwina Attlee, & Wayne Koestenbaum.

Order a copy of Seven Rooms direct from Prototype Publishing. Read Jaeckle & Chandler’s introduction to the collection, ‘Forethoughts.’

Seven Hundred Horses assembles a select thread of live recordings and materials from the London launch of Seven Rooms at Presse Books / FormaHQ (Regel, Sante, Cassels, Cotton, Attlee and Koestenbaum) alongside choice cuts from the Hotel Archive (Polek, Sinclair, Grubbs, Brossa, and Schtinter). 


& in which ... 

Hannah Regel reads Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Eleven Stars Over Andalusia,’ Nicolette Polek reads a short story called ‘The Rope Barrier,’ Iain Sinclair reads ‘Animal Drums,’ a cut-up impromptu to SJ Fowler’s motion-picture-poem of the same name (at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2019), David Grubbs reads a slice of his feature-length poem, ‘Good night the pleasure was ours,’ Lucy Sante reads a poem called ‘Call My Baby,’ Imogen Cassels reads a poem called ‘Two Types of the Same Return’ and ‘Moss’ (as in Kate), Jess Cotton reads a poem called ‘States of Bewilderment’ and a poem called ‘Aloof,’ Stanley Schtinter reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Astral Summary’ (Parts I and II of III), Edwina Attlee reads a poem called ‘Refrigeration’ and a poem called ‘Australia Day,’ and Wayne Koestenbaum reads a poem called ‘Stigma Pudding.’

A Suite for Seven Rooms (700 Horses) was co-produced for Resonance Extra by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham; the readings at Presse Books / Forma HQ were recorded on location by Caroline Heron.

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Hannah Regel is a writer based in London. She has been published in The Poetry Review, Fantastic Man, Granta, Hotel and Canal, amongst others. She has published two collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020 respectively). Her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, will be published by Verso Fiction in 2024. 


Nicolette Polek is the author of Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) and the forthcoming novel, Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024). She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School.



Iain Sinclair is a British writer, documentarist, filmmaker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.



David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape (all published by Duke University Press, 2022, 2020, 2018, and 2014 respectively). He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Susan Howe, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, and many others. 



Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), Kill All Your Darlings (Verse Chorus Press, 2007), The Other Paris (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), and—in 2024— the memoir I Heard Her Call My Name (Heinemann).



Imogen Cassels is the author of various pamphlets, including Chesapeake (Distance No Object, 2021), VOSS (Broken Sleep, 2020), Arcades (Sad Press, 2018), and Mother, beautiful things (Face Press, 2017). Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, and elsewhere.



Jess Cotton is a writer based in London. Her book on John Ashbery was recently published by Reaktion Books. 



Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919–1998) began writing when he was mobilised in the Spanish Civil War and would fuse political engagement and aesthetic experiment through sonnets, odes, theatre, sculpture and screenplay within a neo-surrealist framework. Brossa founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1948, and his collections include El saltamartí (1963), Poesia Rasa (1970), and the six volumes of Poesia escénica (published between 1973 and 1983).

Stanley Schtinter has been described as an ‘artist’ by the Daily Mail and as an ‘exorcist’ by the Daily Star.


Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London. 



Wayne Koestenbaum has published over twenty books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Ultramarine (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Cheerful Scapegoat (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents, 2021), Figure It Out (Counterpoint, 2020), Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2018), My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), amongst other publications. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Centre.

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A new entry in the occasional broadcast series from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio, Seven Hundred Horses is a suite of readings by eleven poets and makers to mark the publication of Seven Rooms, an anthology of works from across the Hotel series, 2016 to 2023, co-published by Tenement and Prototype, and edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Jess Chandler. 

This episode features music by Vitor Joaquim, Henrik Meierkord, TraumaSutra, Alwin van der Linde, Taphephobia & IDFT, Kloob, Mario Lino Stancati, Michael Bonaventure and Stefan Klaverdal.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

This episode focuses on Tenerife and features some recent guests and local island fiends. Opening with an island jam by Monopoly Child & Sun Araw, Lava Tube Solos on Horsebacks, swiftly segueing into CV & JAB’s pool tide inspired tunes from their island séjour last March.

GAF and friends make a deep appearance too with their latest psych heavy double whammy, Reptiles – seek this and others such as Lagoss and Akane on Keroxen, Discrepant and beyond.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.